Mar 12 Mississippi establishes first US state college for women
Mar 13 The birth of Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist
Mar 13 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
Mar 13 US adopts Standard Time
Mar 17 John Joseph Montgomery makes first glider flight, Otay CA
Aug 05 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
Aug 28 The first known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
Aug 10 In New York City, a 5.5 earthquake caused large cracks in walls at Amityville and Jamaica (intensity VII). The shock was felt strongly at New York City
Sep 20 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
Sep 20 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
Feb 18 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
Feb 18 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
Feb 01 First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
Feb 07 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
Feb 19 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky &Indiana kill 800 people
Feb 26 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
Apr 20 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
Apr 26 J Palisa discovers asteroid #236 Honoria
Apr 24 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
Apr 08 The birth of Harry S.Truman, Former American President
Apr 22 Thomas Stevens starts first bike trip around the world (2 yrs 9 mos)
Nov 15 Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin
Nov 04 Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for first presidential term
Nov 25 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
Nov 06 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
